The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 57Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1780 |
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... must bear the deftin'd load , Prior 2 : 179 Abfalom and Achitophel , character of , Abfence , engages in rebellion , death to thofe who love , Abftinence lean and fallow , Abfurdities , grand climacterical , Abundance is the mifer's ...
... must bear the deftin'd load , Prior 2 : 179 Abfalom and Achitophel , character of , Abfence , engages in rebellion , death to thofe who love , Abftinence lean and fallow , Abfurdities , grand climacterical , Abundance is the mifer's ...
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... must be more than man , that iron - heart , inflexibly fevere , a lion , not a man . Pope il . 2 : 101 Pope il . 2 : 106 Pope il . 2 : 320 Pope il . 2 : 328 Pope il . 2 : 328 flaughters wide in impotence of pride , Pope il . 2 : 328 ...
... must be more than man , that iron - heart , inflexibly fevere , a lion , not a man . Pope il . 2 : 101 Pope il . 2 : 106 Pope il . 2 : 320 Pope il . 2 : 328 Pope il . 2 : 328 flaughters wide in impotence of pride , Pope il . 2 : 328 ...
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... must not yield to ? - herself , the foreft ill . --- man wretched victim of , --- advances venerably wife , Den . 114 Den . 119 Den . 125 Young 2 : 118 Mall . 158 Pepe il . 2 : 313 Prior 2 170 Prior 2 : 171 . Pope il . 1 : 110 turns on ...
... must not yield to ? - herself , the foreft ill . --- man wretched victim of , --- advances venerably wife , Den . 114 Den . 119 Den . 125 Young 2 : 118 Mall . 158 Pepe il . 2 : 313 Prior 2 170 Prior 2 : 171 . Pope il . 1 : 110 turns on ...
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... must not yield to ? herself , the foreft ill . --- man wretched victim of , --- advances venerably wife , Milt . 2 : 103 Den . 113 Den . 114 Den . 119 Den . 125 Young 2 : 118 Mall . 158 Pepe il . 2 : 313 Prior 2 170 Prior 2 171 . Pope ...
... must not yield to ? herself , the foreft ill . --- man wretched victim of , --- advances venerably wife , Milt . 2 : 103 Den . 113 Den . 114 Den . 119 Den . 125 Young 2 : 118 Mall . 158 Pepe il . 2 : 313 Prior 2 170 Prior 2 171 . Pope ...
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... must part , of things , beyond their measure cloy , things corrupted , are the worst , Better the day of death , than day of birth , borne to the mighty dead , Bettefworth , verses on , Betty the Grizette , Wall . 68 Pope il . 2 : 221 ...
... must part , of things , beyond their measure cloy , things corrupted , are the worst , Better the day of death , than day of birth , borne to the mighty dead , Bettefworth , verses on , Betty the Grizette , Wall . 68 Pope il . 2 : 221 ...
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Achilles Aken Anacreontic beauty beft Black bleffing blifs breaſt Broome Buck Butl Butlo Cæfar caufe character charms Collins Cong Cowley Dæmon death defcribed Duke Dyer eclogue elegy epiftle epilogue epitaph eternal facred fame fate fatire fcience feaft fenfe Fent fhall fight firft flain flave fome fong fools forrow foul fource fpring ftand ftill ftory fure fweet Garth goddeſs gods Gray happineſs heaven himſelf Horace Hugbes Hughes hymn imitated Jove juft King laft Lanf laſt loft LVII Lytt Mall Milt mind numbers o'er paffion paraphraſed Parn Patroclus Phil Pitt plagues of Egypt pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope Pope il Pope od praife praiſe prefent pride Prior prologue rage reafon rife Rofc Rowe Rowe L Shen ſtate Swift Thom Tick tranflation Ulyffes univerfal verfes verſes virtue Wall Watts Weft whofe wife Young
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Page v - of places and countries, and in accounts of remarkable events, either in the natural or political •world, and of the ancient cuftoms or antiquities ; in critical obfervations on
Page vi - with dignity ; but the former, that of the vulgar, and generally as vulgarly exprefled, yet equally true with the fententious. Proverbial fayings could not well be difarranged, without fpoiling them, or at
Page v - particulars ; namely, in prudential, moral and religious fentences; in remarkable proverbial fayings, either of a ludicrous or ferious turn ; in characters of celebrated perfons, both ancient and modern ; in
Page vi - when they could conveniently be brought within the compafs of a line, and in the very arrangement of their words, in order to preferve entire the harmony and
Page viii - exclude, from a place in an index, very many important fentences, which are without a fubftantive. Dryden again fays, -write well, or not at all:
Page vii - it may therefore lead the fentence, according to the general rule of index-making; namely, that a
Page viii - not to make a verb the leading word ; or even an adverb, if ufed emphatically ; for
Page vii - but which it neceflarily implies, it is in all languages, both learned and unlearned, taken
Page vii - not to make them the leading words : Dryden, for inftance, to mention no other, fays,
Page 254 - Ichor, blood of gods, Ida, fount-full hill, fair nurfe of fountains and of game,